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King Lear: 400 years of the second quarto of Shakespeare’s great tragedy

King Lear: 400 years of the second quarto of Shakespeare’s great tragedy

by Talking Humanities | Jan 15, 2019 | Archives & Libraries, Features, History & Classics, Publications, Research & Resources

We are so used to today’s definitive texts that it is easy to forget how elusive in the early modern period a definitive text can be. Indeed, literary experts still argue about whether early volumes of Shakespeare are the same play or different versions. It’s...
Shakespeare in translation – Henry VI

Shakespeare in translation – Henry VI

by Talking Humanities | Jul 5, 2016 | Events, Features, Languages & Literature, Republished, Research & Resources

Professor Line Cottegnies, who took part in a ‘Shakespeare in French’ conference organised by Dr Dominic Glynn and Senate House Library, discusses some of the problems she encountered when translating the Henry VI trilogy for the Pléiade-Gallimard edition of...

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